KJ @ STC

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson showed up at opening night for Gem of the Ocean...here's the photo with artistic director Peggy Shannon:

It was a star-studded evening with KJ giving a rousing curtain speech (along with remarks by City Councilperson Bonnie Pannell) and SacBee theatre critic Marcus Crowder helping out with the pre-show prologue. For more info on Gem of the Ocean at STC, go to the new website, AugustWilsonCenturyProject.com.

STC Celebrates Sondheim!

Our popular Cabaret Series returns this weekend with Something Familiar, Something Peculiar--The Songs of Stephen Sondheim and features the singing talents of Michael RJ Campbell, Joelle Wirth, Carol Miranda, Anna Miles...

...and me. (I'm the "something peculiar," I guess.) :-)

Directed by Michael Laun with music direction by Graham Sobelman. Tickets and more information available HERE.

TREASURE ISLAND opens today!

Ye be warned.

(...and go to www.piratesofthecapitalcity.com for some pirate fun.)

The show runs through November 2nd.

Dinner and a Show Plans?

STC is making dinner plans before the show a lot easier with our new online restaurant guide, STCdine.com. We've partnered with a number of downtown restaurants to provide detailed information (including a featured restaurant for each of this season's productions) along with a discount package that's pretty hard to beat!

WIN A NEW HOME FOR $100!!!

Find out how HERE...

STC is raffling off a 3-bedroom riverfront condo at the new Regatta at the Rivers development in West Sacramento. Tickets are only $100 and we're only selling 5000 of them--that means you're odds of winning a NEW HOME are better than your odds of cutting yourself shaving!

Check out the news on this exciting fundraiser for STC in Bob Shallit's column in the SacBee and on KCRA3 over the weekend.

STC Wins Arts & Business Award

STC picked up the "Best Arts/Business Partnership" award from the Arts & Business Council of Sacramento at the annual Prelude to the Season event last Thursday. The award, which goes to the best collaboration between a local business and a non-profit arts organiztion, was given to the Firehouse Ball in recognition of the relationship between STC, the Firehouse Restaurant and the Harvego Family Foundation.

We're very proud of this award and even prouder of the event itself, which raised a record amount for STC last June. Look for a save-the-date notice after the first of the year for the 9th annual Firehouse Ball!

Cowtown Marathon

I ran the half-marathon in the annual Cowtown Marathon yesterday, and the morning after 13.1 miles I can honestly say I know more kinds of pain than Eskimos have words for "snow."